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Spinning directly out of the pages of Guardians of the Galaxy and just in time for the highly anticipated summer blockbuster – the notorious interstellar outlaw is striking out to swindle and swashbuckle his way across the galaxy in search of big adventures and even bigger scores. Expect a battle with the Badoon, a fight to save an orphanage, not to mention a little flirting with Kitty Pryde of the X-Men – and that’s just the FIRST ISSUE!

From the cold abyss of deep space to the seedy alien underworld, deadly forces await around every turn – and the Star-Lord stands alone. As the brazen outlaw prepares to strike out on a new journey, no fan can afford to miss the continuing adventures of the leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy. An epic new adventure begins right here – if he lives that long! Hang on dear reader, as Sam Humphries & Paco Medina take you out of this world when THE LEGENDARY STAR-LORD #1 explodes onto comic shop shelves and digital devices this July!

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I read the first issue of the latest Guardians of the Galaxy title, but outside of that I know more about the team from the commercials for the upcoming film than I do from anything I've seen in comics. It has been rumoured that Marvel/Disney are hoping to make Guardians their own Star Wars-type franchise, and Star-Lord is certainly forged in the Han Solo-mould.

This was pretty much a by-the-numbers #1 issue. This is Star-Lord, he's a wise-cracking, fast-talking flawed hero, able to get himself both into and out of trouble at a moment's notice. No issues with the art - it was bright, and fit the tone of the script.

Will I be back from #2? I don't think so, unless it starts getting critical acclaim. Based just on this issue, the title seems like it's going to occupy the same space (pardon the pun...) as Rucka's Cyclops, and I'm not sure I need to be reading two of those books. Still, it was a fun, light read.

He rarely appeared for decades but I always enjoyed him when he did. Then came DnA and they tweaked him just enough to his character even better. Their work on GotG was just extraordinary (I still can't wrap my head around why Marvel ended their cosmic books).

Then came word GotG would be back - great news until I find it's Bendis writing it - no thanks, never even looked at #1.

But now I can get a Starlord fix without that bald twit involved, so I was happy to pick it up...

Peter is at an Earth orphanage that's under assault by the Badoon, he's captured but only because he wanted to be. He phones a little girl , escapes, steals a jewel then gives the orphanage some money but keeps the jewel for himself and then he meets his sister.

Simple enough tale - except...

It took a page or too to realize the orphanage wasn't on Earth, the Badoon acted like no other Badoon I've ever seen. In fact the only reason I know they are Badoon (because they don't even look like Badoon) is because the writer tells that's who they are. Which would have been a good move he had told us who "Kitty" was. I don't read the X-books (or Bendis) so it took me a bit to figure out it 'could' be her. Would have been nice if an introduction happened, because of the way she was drawn it looked like Peter was holophone-sexing a young teenage girl.

And in the 'what a coincidence' department - two weeks ago in the Review Group I mentioned the absurdity that the bad guys didn't search the Punisher's for weapons or tools and the exact same thing happens here.

Lastly, we discover that Peter has a sister (which looks like Art Adams drew her) he never knew about - which is probably the most interesting thing in this issue - but it comes about 10 pages after I stopped caring.

First off, I have to say that I was a little disappointed by this issue. I went in expecting more than what I got. I don't think this issue was bad, but it was just a little better than average. I hate to judge a comic based on what I think it should be rather than what it is, but in this case that bias seeped in -- I just couldn't help it.

I became a big fan of Star-Lord through Geffen's and DnA's runs using Marvel's cosmic characters. The Star-Lord appearing in this first issue seems to be, what I presume to be, the movie version of the character rather than the comic version that I've become used to. I guess I shouldn't be surprised about that, Marvel has been changing their characters into combination versions of comic and movie characters for years now. Reading this issue was like seeing a new character overlaid on top of the version of the character I wanted to read about.

Having said all of that, I see that there is potential here. I liked this new Star-Lord's character and I liked the surprise ending. There was enough that I saw to make me interested enough to see where things go from here. I guess that means that this first issue succeeded in it's mission to get me to continue reading.

Normally, I'd open the floor for suggestions, but I think that the next comic on the block might be good for the group.

Warlord of Mars #0

If everything he loves is taken away from him, who is John Carter? Will the Warlord of Mars lose hope if he loses his friends, if he loses Dejah Thoris? If he loses Mars? Or will he fight all odds and even reality itself to get it all back?